Review: 'Afternoon Delight' serves cure for boredom

Boredom, they say, can kill you.

In the case of Rachel, the protagonist in the movie "Afternoon Delight", death comes in the form of exhaustion, alienation, isolation, and inability unable to connect with her son and her husband.

The opening scene of the movie takes us to the car wash and right from the start we sense Rachel's boredom.

The next scene stresses this point as we find Rachel on a couch and telling her therapist that she had no right to complain, given what she has and what women from other parts of the  world are suffering (think Darfour!).

Still, it's not enough.

After a night at a strippers' club in a bid to revive her and her husband's sex life, she ended up befriending and ultimately taking home stripper/sex worker McKenna.

This decision led to a series of events that made Rachel realize and appreciate what she has. The journey to this realization is  funny, sad and shocking, but perhaps Rachel needs all these emotions to be jolted and find happiness again.

Equally witty and touching, the movie with the tagline "The Cure for the Common Marriage" will not leave you bored. 

Afternoon Delight is topbilled by Katherine Hahn, Juno Temple, Joshua Radnor and Jane Lynch.

The movie is rated R-16 and will open in Philippine cinemas on December 11.